Mattishall / Nateshala / Mateshale / Matteshall

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Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mattishall/mattishall.htm] [accessed 11 August 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mattishall/mattishall.htm] [accessed 11 August 2009]

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mattishall/mattishall.htm] [accessed 11 August 2009]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Late 14c tower with rectangular buttresses halfway up and thence angle buttresses"ishall.htm] [accessed 25 March 2014]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken 27 March 1937 by George Plunkett [www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norfolk/M/Mattishall All Saints church south side [1538] 1937-03-27.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mattishall/mattishall.htm] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font and cover at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mattishall/mattishall.htm] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - northeast view

Scene Description: view across the arcade into the north aisle

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mattishall/mattishall.htm] [accessed 25 March 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 2006 taken by Simon Knott [www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mattishall/mattishall.htm] [accessed 11 August 2009]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06141MAT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 11 Dereham Road, Mattishall, Norfolk NR20 3QF

Country Name: England

Location: Norfolk, East Anglia

Directions to Site: Located about 6 km EES of East Dereham, just SW of Mattishall Burgh, 21 km from Norwich

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Norwich

Historical Region: Hundred and half of Mitford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century [base only?] [composite font], Late Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Simon Knott, of www.norfolkchurches.co.uk, for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Mattishall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG0511/mattishall/] [accessed 25 March 2014], reporting a church and churcn lands in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The principal lordship at the survey was in the hands of Ralph de Beaufoe, of which 14 freemen (who held it in King Edward's time) were deprived, 2 carucates and a half, and 20 acres of land belonged to it, with 12 villains, and 5 carucates, and 6 acres of meadow, and a church endowed with 20 acres [...] The Church of Matteshale is dedicated to All-Saints [...] It consists of a nave, north and south isle, with a chancel covered with lead, has a four square tower at the west end of the nave embattled, in which hang 6 bells, a clock and a dial." The present font here is described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) among baptismal fonts with concave sides, "the largest and grandest example so treated is the fine fifteenth-century font at Mattishall". Noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "The solid stem with concave sides is Perp[endicular]." Illustrated in Knott (2006): "The font is a curiosity. It has no designs on the eight panels of its bowl, but all of them are concave. The traceried panels of the shaft appear to be medieval. Can the bowl be old as well?" The basin is plain but for the mouldings on the underbowl, and probably dates to the modern renovation of the church. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; modern as well.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.65855, 1.03439

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 30.78″ N, 1° 2′ 3.8″ E

UTM: 31U 367056 5836101

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blomefield, Francis, An essay towards a topographical history of Norfolk, 1805-1810

Knott, Simon, The Norfolk Churches Site, Simon Knott, 2004. [standing permission to reproduce images received from Simon (February 2005]. Accessed: 2009-08-11 00:00:00. URL: www.norfolkchurches.co.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Norfolk 2: North-West and South (2nd ed.), London: Penguin, 1999

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928